Insanely good priest cards: Shadow word Death, Shadow word Pain, Power word shield, Priest of the feast, Onyx Bishop, Ressurect (in this meta), Excavated Evil, Holy Nova, Northshire Cleric, Forbidden Shaping, Prophet Velen, Mind Blast, Flash Heal, Auchenai fucking soulpriest, Entomb, and a bunch more I didn't even bother with.
Priest does have a lot of good cards, but most of them are reactive/comeback cards and very few help you start winning. They also struggle to be consistent, as well as having trouble draw cards.
Their early game is still very weak, with no 1 or 2 drops that work well with current variants, meaning you'll be facing a huge uphill battle by turn 3.
The Karazhan cards help them make huge tempo swings in the mid game, which remedy a good bit of these problems, but not all of them.
Insanely good priest cards: Shadow word Death, Shadow word Pain, Power word shield, Priest of the feast, Onyx Bishop, Ressurect (in this meta), Excavated Evil, Holy Nova, Northshire Cleric, Forbidden Shaping, Prophet Velen, Mind Blast, Flash Heal, Auchenai fucking soulpriest, Entomb, and a bunch more I didn't even bother with.
I'm sorry, how is this a bad class?!
Since when is mind blast a good card? Now for serious, resurrect priest is decent right now, what people was ranting about is that priest has a really hard time dealing with the current meta. Let me tell you some of the reasons:
1- You don't win the game by healing only, which is what priest tried to do pre-ONIK and succeded at in Naxx + GvG. The other thing is that in order to make healing effective, you must be damaged in the first place, which is really hard to get that value in small minions.
2- Cleric aside, priest has no early game drop. And even if you count cleric, you only have 1 class minion on the deck to play before turn 4. There is no other class that has to go through this. Every class has at least one 2-drop and 3-drop. This forces priest to always get behind when you reach turn 4, forcing you to play a control deck.
3- Everything on a priest deck works with a combo, you need circle + auchenai to clean on turn 4. Oh, you don't have it? Nova is never enough, and excavated can't kill 4-drops and 5-drops. The other, is to get a pyromancer, and guess what, you need to have low-cost spells to trigger it's effect. If a shaman has the perfect combination of cards (turn 1 trogg; turn 2 golem; turn 3; flametongue; turn 4 mighty 7/7) it is very difficult to come back. But in priest's case, you always need to have auch + circle turn 4, or pyro + 2/3 spells only to get back into the game.
4- Many cards require certain things to play them: SW:D/SW:P to have X attack, Circle of Healing is worthless if you can't combine with a cleric or an auchenai, forbidden shaping is generally bad until turn 6 or 8, Flash heal depends on auchenai for damage and is outclassed by priest of the feast if you want to heal badly, Nova to have damaged minions, Bishop to have a dead minion. See, the effects are pretty good, but they are dead cards if you can't fulfill the requirements, and some cards like shadow word death will lie for the entire game in your hand if you face something like a zoo. That's why Entomb and PW:S are always played, they're too easy to get value out of them.
Priest before the priest of the feast, had the lowest winrate of all classes and by far. The reason priest of the feast is THAT good is that you can throw spells and heal for 6 or turn 9 in a turn, letting you to actually come back and with a board. But guess what, this is also a combo, what if your hand is only bishops + resurrects + 6-drop minions + excavated? And this happens way more often that you think. But, as said at the start, priest is in a much better position that pre-ONiK. It should be closer to the 50% winrate with the rez deck
As a bonus, if a game of Hearthstone would start at 4 mana, IMO Priest would be one of the best, if not the best class by far, it's ability to keep medium and huge minions alive and clear the board is too good, but this only happens past turn 4. It's just the pressure other decks create before turn 4 that holds back priest from being OP. This is why I guess blizzard doesn't want a viable early drop for priest.
Basically because Priests haven't been particularly viable in the previous couple of metas, in typical Hearthpwn hyperbole fashion, people were ranting and raving about how Priests were awful and had no good cards and were structurally flawed and Blizzard didn't have a clue what they were doing.
Now with the addition of a couple of good cards, which people didn't even think were any good when they first looked at them, Priest have seemingly been turned into a viable class.
So now the pitchfork mob will probably turn their attention to something else that is 'the worst thing ever'.
Insanely good priest cards: Shadow word Death, Shadow word Pain, Power word shield, Priest of the feast, Onyx Bishop, Ressurect (in this meta), Excavated Evil, Holy Nova, Northshire Cleric, Forbidden Shaping, Prophet Velen, Mind Blast, Flash Heal, Auchenai fucking soulpriest, Entomb, and a bunch more I didn't even bother with.
I'm sorry, how is this a bad class?!
Prophet Velen, Mind Blast: I can't see how OTK Priest is as good as Malygos Druid/Rogue or Freeze Mage and those aren't even T2 Deck.
Excavated Evil, Holy Nova: Lightbomb was a good board clear. Those are certainly not insanely good, they just get played, because Priest has nothing else.
Northshire Cleric: Many Priest decks don't even run her anymore, because she immediately dies to so many things: FWA, Alextrasza's Champion, Totem Golem, Flame Imp, most two drops in hunter and tempo mage.
Forbidden Shaping: There are so many minions that are below average without battle cry to make this a good card. This card sees only play, because Priest has no consistent early game.
Everyone seems to agree priest has good comeback mechanics but a poor early game... where is the problem then? :)
Priest is not amazing I agree, but trust me, you don't want it to be. It's already painful to face priest at the moment wit rng resurrection, entombs and other delicious cards. I don't want it to become top tier on top of that.
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Insanely good priest cards: Shadow word Death, Shadow word Pain, Power word shield, Priest of the feast, Onyx Bishop, Ressurect (in this meta), Excavated Evil, Holy Nova, Northshire Cleric, Forbidden Shaping, Prophet Velen, Mind Blast, Flash Heal, Auchenai fucking soulpriest, Entomb, and a bunch more I didn't even bother with.
I'm sorry, how is this a bad class?!
Lmao, did you just really say that Mind Blast and Prophet Velen are insanely good priest cards? Seriously? Are you a comedian or something?
Of priest is so great hp ahead got Legends with70% wing rate with rez plz priest.. it's certainly better than any wotog priest deck but it's still not as consistancy as smorc shaman or hunter.
Insanely good priest cards: Shadow word Death, Shadow word Pain, Power word shield, Priest of the feast, Onyx Bishop, Ressurect (in this meta), Excavated Evil, Holy Nova, Northshire Cleric, Forbidden Shaping, Prophet Velen, Mind Blast, Flash Heal, Auchenai fucking soulpriest, Entomb, and a bunch more I didn't even bother with.
I'm sorry, how is this a bad class?!
Prophet Velen, Mind Blast: I can't see how OTK Priest is as good as Malygos Druid/Rogue or Freeze Mage and those aren't even T2 Deck.
Excavated Evil, Holy Nova: Lightbomb was a good board clear. Those are certainly not insanely good, they just get played, because Priest has nothing else.
Northshire Cleric: Many Priest decks don't even run her anymore, because she immediately dies to so many things: FWA, Alextrasza's Champion, Totem Golem, Flame Imp, most two drops in hunter and tempo mage.
Forbidden Shaping: There are so many minions that are below average without battle cry to make this a good card. This card sees only play, because Priest has no consistent early game.
Because the one thing the class that can make it where late game minions don't fucking die is a great early game as well. Really glad you're not in charge of balance.
Bad Priest Cards: Purify, Herald Volsaj
Insanely good priest cards: Shadow word Death, Shadow word Pain, Power word shield, Priest of the feast, Onyx Bishop, Ressurect (in this meta), Excavated Evil, Holy Nova, Northshire Cleric, Forbidden Shaping, Prophet Velen, Mind Blast, Flash Heal, Auchenai fucking soulpriest, Entomb, and a bunch more I didn't even bother with.
I'm sorry, how is this a bad class?!
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I agree. I'm actually afraid of facing priest... and not only in this meta.
Priest does have a lot of good cards, but most of them are reactive/comeback cards and very few help you start winning. They also struggle to be consistent, as well as having trouble draw cards.
Their early game is still very weak, with no 1 or 2 drops that work well with current variants, meaning you'll be facing a huge uphill battle by turn 3.
The Karazhan cards help them make huge tempo swings in the mid game, which remedy a good bit of these problems, but not all of them.
Basically because Priests haven't been particularly viable in the previous couple of metas, in typical Hearthpwn hyperbole fashion, people were ranting and raving about how Priests were awful and had no good cards and were structurally flawed and Blizzard didn't have a clue what they were doing.
Now with the addition of a couple of good cards, which people didn't even think were any good when they first looked at them, Priest have seemingly been turned into a viable class.
So now the pitchfork mob will probably turn their attention to something else that is 'the worst thing ever'.
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Everyone seems to agree priest has good comeback mechanics but a poor early game... where is the problem then? :)
Priest is not amazing I agree, but trust me, you don't want it to be. It's already painful to face priest at the moment wit rng resurrection, entombs and other delicious cards. I don't want it to become top tier on top of that.
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since Priests have a 4 mana pyroblast and a 7 mana double-spell-damage.
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Because it's really hard to win if you don't draw Auchenai + Circle.
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I agree, Priest is great at rank 10.
Put all those cards in a deck and try to play all your mana on curve every turn. Thats why.
Of priest is so great hp ahead got Legends with70% wing rate with rez plz priest.. it's certainly better than any wotog priest deck but it's still not as consistancy as smorc shaman or hunter.
I play Priest at rank 25 and it's very OP, I even lose a star unto rank 20.
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Because Priest still needs its own class card that is equivalent to 4 mana 7/7 or Dr.Secrets
In b4 Purify joke.
4 Mana 7/7? How about 4 mana 2x 4/7?
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I have played a lot of Rez Priests I am honestly sure if I lose to ANY of them lol